The author started keeping a diary to help him stop drinking. It didn't help. After a while he stopped the diary, thinking that might help. It didn't. Nothing helped except being broke, and this was always temporary, with money coming in from somewhere: a day labor office, an unemployment check, a small inheritance.

This may explain why the entries in Timothy Donahue's In the Open move from topic to topic without connecting bridges, skipping around in time (from 1990 to 1994) as pointlessly as the writer hitchhikes around the country. The reader learns a lot about alcoholism and the homeless. Those who know all

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